Field guide No. 1563
Four seasons
Each window has its own calendar
A long row of broken windows in a derelict factory, each showing the same water tower outside in snow, spring blossom, summer green and autumn orange. One building, four weather reports.
Field noteWindow panes side by side share one view, but each of these opens on a different season.
- Specimen
- No. 1563
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A derelict mill with four seasons in its windows
- Nearest existing relative
- A row of factory windows
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Five sparrows, five gravitiesGravity has one down per place. Five sparrows on one twig have five, which makes the branch a disagreement.
Square dust devil over desertWhirlwinds go round; that is what a whirl is. This one spins with four flat sides and corners.
Flaming icicles on a summer wallIcicles hang from a sunlit brick wall, a flame burning inside every one.
Quartz thread across a fractured cliffQuartz veins live inside rock, yet this one spans open air between split blocks as a taut thread.